You don’t have to read past issues of the comic book to get some really “weird tales.” There is plenty of weirdness going on in real life.
Searching credible news sources, we came up with some strange reports that make you shake your head in disbelief.
Someone with a money tree in his backyard paid $82,000 for his own parking spot in San Francisco recently. The space is enclosed in a garage in a South Beach neighbourhood. A Porsche SUV was reportedly parked in there last week. Makes you feel poor, doesn’t it?
In Kenner, LA, police pulled over an SUV on a major highway. Nothing strange about that, other than the driver was 10 years old. A news release states the boy’s grandmother used the kid as a designated driver because she was drunk. It’s the thought that counts.
Closer to home, a science lesson in a BC classroom cost a teacher his job. According to the BC Teacher Regulation Branch, the educator used a female student to demonstrate rock formations and how volcanoes work. The teacher reportedly positioned the girl on a desk and rubbed her legs from her calves to her buttocks to show how lava turns to rock. He allegedly said he was the lava, the “hot stuff.”
This teacher needs to re-learn the definition of inappropriate.
In Tallahassee, FL, sheriff’s deputies used a taser to subdue a 300-pound fugitive named Scooter that leaped over a four-foot fence to escape his confines.
The six-footer outran police until he was cornered and brought down by electrodes from the taser (don’t tase me, bro). Police said they used the weapon because “llamas” aren’t domesticated and don’t respond to voice commands.
In Berlin, doctors discovered that a man spent 15 years with a 10-centimetre pencil in his head. Apparently, the man suffered a childhood accident, resulting in a pencil being lodged from his sinus to his pharynx. He reportedly suffered headaches and gradual vision loss in one eye. The operation to get the lead out was successful. Write on!
Venezuelan police seized approximately 2,500 rolls of toilet paper during a raid on a warehouse used to store scarce goods. Toilet paper is hard to find in grocery stores, and the government says the shortages are part of a plot to destabilize the country. Yes, hording toilet paper would destabilize any home.
Finally, in Puerto Rico, a legislator wants to increase fines and jail terms for parents whose children drop out of school or play hookey.
He’s proposing fines up to $5,000 and 12-month jail sentences.
We keep telling parents that education starts at home.
